It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, and the best tables in the hotel dining-rooms; but he grows amazingly intimate with them during the voyage, and not infrequently marries one of them when it is over.

The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!